The Renewal of the Evangelical Spirit

[...foolishly] This completes the thought from the previous page: "as many ill-advised people foolishly hope..." hope for his grace after some time of penance. This will surely fail him, since there is no other time for forgiveness than this short life, which is the time God has given to man to test himself and see if he voluntarily wishes to persist in THE LOVE OF HIS GOD, or if he wishes to turn his affections toward himself, or toward something other than God. But as soon as this time of trial is passed, he must no longer hope for grace. Man must remain in the state he has chosen in this world, and that for all eternity: if he has then conquered his corruption and returned to God the free will he had given him, to let himself be entirely ruled by his Divine Wisdom, Divine Wisdom The personified wisdom of God, often associated with the Logos or Christ in mystical theology. he has acquired the blessed eternal life, which will never end, enjoying THE DESIGNS THAT GOD HAD FOR MAN in creating him to take his delights with him, being in eternal and everlasting joy united to his God indivisibly forever. But the person who in this world wanted to follow their own will and the movements of their corrupt nature, and place their affections in the goods and pleasures of this life, will find themselves at death deprived of all good, and confined to all the kinds of evils they loved in this world, without remission, and for all eternity.

I do not wish here to pause to detail specifically the pains of Hell since I have touched on them enough in the following letter, and because I also do not wish